Raine Balkera - Romance Author

I'm bored and need to write, so here I am. I've done a lot of reading, and I read before going to bed each night, so plowing through my stash is inevitable and why I'm still in the habit of browsing Amazon reviews. One day, while reading reviews for potential new purchases, I came across something that made me laugh. It also caught my attention because, apparently, I too suck at Show v Tell Great protagonists and antagonists. Great plot. Smooth action, solid connection between friends.  But...stop "telling" me and start "showing" me. For example: "The pain eating through Dylan was like a chainsaw cutting through his gut." How much more exciting it would've been if I'd experienced it WITH Dylan: The pain ate through Dylan's gut like an angry chainsaw. OR A chainsaw cut a swathe of pain through Dylan's gut.  Less use of passive words and phrases (phrasing) would catapult your already fabulous writing into the rea...

Pages -  238 pages Device Use -  Unlimited Publisher -  Lachesis Publishing Inc Published -  September 8, 2013 Sold by -   Amazon Series -  Book 1 Gentlemen of Honor Genre -  Regency Sexual Content -  4/5 Language -  irrelevant POV -  3rd Omnis (mostly h) Synopsis She was known as The Spinster of Brightwood Manor, and that suited Lady Beatrice O’Brien just fine. She was happy being a spinster; happy running her father’s estates while amassing a fortune of her own; happy tending to the needs of her community; and most of all, she was happy not having a man around to tell her what to do. But when Beatrice accidentally shoots her new neighbor, the Earl of Drennan, her life turns upside-down. Suddenly, this very arrogant gentleman, who also happens to be charming and attractive, makes himself at home at Brightwood Manor, and proceeds to court her! Beatrice knows one thing for certain. Marriage will...

Pages: 288 pages Device Usage: Unlimited Publisher: Potatoworks Press Published: February 4, 2014 Sold by: Amazon Digital Genre: Regency Romance Sexual Content: 3-5 Language: doesn't apply Voice: third P but Emma's story Synopsis Miss Emma Harlow hasn’t earned the reputation as a hoyden for nothing, so when the Duke of Trent discovers her in his conservatory stealing one of his orchids, he’s isn’t surprised—charmed, delighted and puzzled, yes, but not surprised. It is Emma who is amazed. She has naturally concluded that the man reading in the conservatory must be the country cousin (who else in London would actually read?) and is quite vexed to discover that he is the Duke of Trent himself—imagine, stealing the duke’s prize Rhyncholaelia digbyana under his very nose! But her vexation doesn’t last long. For Emma is a practical young lady with a mission: to end her dear sister Lavinia’s engagement to the villainous (and dreadfully dull!) Sir Waldo Windbou...